Sorry, that was not my intention. My comment was solely to offer a caution that users have mentioned that they found errors in clublog, thus I felt it was legitimate to simply point out that you cannot blindly accept reported errors as being gospel. It was in no way a blanket condemnation of anything and I'm certainly not suggesting that it shouldn't be used although a certain amount of caution seemed valid.
If someone wants to delete my message, please do so. Regards -----Original Message----- From: Fred Handscombe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:02 AM To: Jack; 'Bill Parry'; 'D. Drake'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past Jack That is a very broad and condemning statement with nothing to back it up! Not even first hand experience from your comment? I load my logs to Clublog and find that DXBase makes plenty of errors in "deciding" which country I have worked. I use the Clublog feedback to improve my DXBase databases. To be factual, and not just make a wild claim, most of the errors are in the Asiatic Russian prefixes. If I feel my DXBase is "right" I give feedback, in the correct forum, and the accuracy of Clublog improves, or I find out I have made an error! Making wild statements in the wrong forum helps no-one. Clublog's database is being updated almost daily, so something which happened even a few months back is probably now corrected an it is well worth deleting an old log and running it again. 73 Fred G4BWP > Message Received: Mar 15 2012, 03:14 PM > From: "Jack" > To: "'Bill Parry'" , "'D. Drake'" , [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past > > Just throwing out a caution that others have used clublog and > discovered that it's database has quite a few errors in it. So, if you > are using it as the gospel, you're probably creating errors rather than > fixing anything. > Just saying.... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Bill Parry > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:06 AM > To: 'D. Drake'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past > > I did exactly that some time ago. I uploaded my log sometime back and > Clublog "noticed" the errors (among others). I used the error file to > make the corrections. My point was not to try to figure out if I had > mistakes or a way to correct them but to mention that it is real easy > to make mistakes like this! (Usually if a mistake is to be made I am > one of the first to try it out! :-) > > Bill W5VX > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of D. Drake > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:38 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past > > Bill, > > Try running you log through Clublog. I think the error report will > tell you which qso's (by call > sign) have the wrong prefix. > > > 73, > > Dale AA1QD > > > > > > > From: "Bill Parry" > Subject: [Dxbase] Something stupid that I have done in the past > To: > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > This is just an FYI regarding a mistake that I was making and it was > messing up the prefix column in my records. > > Sometimes I would hear a station and enter it into DXBase. I do this > to get the record of whether I have worked the station before and on which > bands. > If I accidentally entered the call wrong or copied the call wrong I > would correct the call in the callsign column.. If you hit enter again > on that line it will correct the country that is entered. > This unfortunately does NOT fix the prefix column and leaves the > original prefix entered. I suppose this is no big deal but it does > screw up the prefix totals for the Prefix award. > > I am probably the only person that has done this but just in case > there is another dummy out there you might want to be careful. > > > Bill W5VX > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
